Checkweighers
Providing accurate verification of product weight & count

Customer Satisfaction Through Quality Control Checkweighers
Checkweighers are used to automatically check the weight of packaged foods, ensuring the weight of the packs is within specified limits.
This quality control check promotes customer satisfaction and helps you meet the strictest legislative requirements.
We are a preferred partner of Ishida, who is a world leader in checkweigher technology for the food industry.
We supply the full Ishida checkweigher range which is capable of handling various pack types, including bags, trays and cartons.
Benefits of an Ishida checkweigher
Checkweighers offer high accuracy
Rapid throughput
Hygienic open design of checkweighers
High reliability
Incorporates a high-performance load cell for faster stabilisation of weigh-signal
Robust design that protects the weighing mechanism against impact and heavy loads
User-friendly and intuitive display options which includes touch screen capability
Modular, space-saving design with integrated metal detectors and reject systems
DACS – To guarantee correct pack weights and control product integrity
All Ishida checkweighers can be equipped with multiple standard options to enhance performance and usability.
If you need further assistance, please contact our team in Ireland.
Performance Line - For retail compliance
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All the speed and accuracy you need including:
A patented Ishida high-speed load cell feeds a GN generation processor to deliver impressively accurate weight determination at belt speeds of up to 90m/min.
Simplified operation: Training set-up and operation are simplicity itself, with more than 10 pre-set programmes and a clear interactive display with many language options.
A mine of useful data: Tiered access levels protect security, while recorded data can be transferred via USB download or through the ultra-smart IDCS
Built for long, reliable service: These extensively life-tested weighers are based around a stainless-steel frame and designed to weather the toughest production environments.
Hygiene made fast and easy: Thanks to an uncluttered, open design, cleaning of the weigher and the space beneath takes just minutes, helping to reduce downtime.
Checkweighing the way you want it: Whatever your application and the layout of your operation, we can provide your Performance-Line checkweigher as a fully configured solution, with the right dimensions, software and rejection systems.
Compliance guaranteed from the start: All Performance-Line models comply with European safety and weight directives. If you have non-standard requirements, Ishida can tailor a solution to match.
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Excellence Line - For the majority of applications
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The ultimate performance from the DACS-G checkweigher series, Ishida’s DACS-G series culminates 40 years of experience in checkweigher design and manufacturing.
This range of advanced checkweighers offers high accuracy and a rapid throughput with outstandingly reliability, even under the harshest conditions. Each model offers two different weighing ranges, selectable at the touch of a button, enabling a very wide weight spectrum to be handled.
- Incorporates Ishida’s high-performance load cell for faster stabilisation of weigh-signal
- Robust design protects the weighing mechanism against impact and heavy loads
- Space-saving, open frame design with optional metal detector
- Two colour display options, touch screen for the easiest of operations of your checkweigher
- Compliant with European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID)
The DACS-G range is suitable for a vast majority of applications.
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Advance Line - For speeds of up to 600 packs per minute
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The Advance range is used for high line speeds with no sacrifice of accuracy. At belt speeds of up to 120m/min, Ishida’s precision force-balance sensor delivers impressive accuracy, with a minimum graduation of 0.1g.
A solution to match your exact needs: From weigh table size to rejectors and software, a wide choice of options enables us to tailor each Advance-Line checkweigher to meet the exact requirements of your application and line configuration.
Built to withstand tough working conditions: Robustly constructed on a stainless-steel framework, Advance-Line checkweighers are engineered to deliver many years of service in the most demanding applications.
Easy to clean and maintain: The simplified, open design means that cleaning of the checkweigher and the floorspace beneath it can be carried out in minutes, helping keep downtime to a minimum.
Fully compliant: All Advance-Line checkweighers are fully compliant with European safety and weight directives.
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Carton Line - Inspection of boxes / bags up to 60kg
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Easily handles large items, so you don’t have to. The Carton-Line models ensure that the inspection process flows smoothly, handling weights from 150g all the way up to 60,000g and keeping heavy lifting by your staff to the minimum.
Impressive speed and accuracy: These checkweighers keep inspection moving at belt speeds of up to 55m/min and can detect a weight discrepancy as small as 1g, thanks to the patented Ishida high-speed load cell.
Configurable to your exact needs: A free-standing display unit makes integration into the line quick and easy, while line infeed and extension conveyors can be configured to suit your specific requirements. You can choose a roller or belt feed conveyor of either waterproof or dry construction.
A rich source of data: Data capture can take place via USB download or direct printout.
Simple set-up, operation and maintenance: The simplified, intuitive interface makes Carton-Line checkweighers easy to configure and operate.
Compliance built in: All Carton-Line checkweighers comply fully with European safety and weight directives.
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IDCS Data Capture System - To reduce product give-away
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The IDCS collects data from every pack that has passed through your Ishida checkweigher and integrated metal detectors, generating dynamic, graphic displays and reports with a wide range of profitable uses.
The system provides all the information you need to reduce giveaway and downtime to increase efficiency (including Overall Equipment Efficiency, OEE), making a real and lasting contribution to your production line.
The capabilities of the system include live display of losses through overfilling, presented as pounds sterling or euros; presentation of incentive schemes to motivate shop floor staff as they interact with the device; data collection that can identify whether training or equipment adjustments are needed.
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Combination Checkweigher and Metal Detection
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When used in combination, an Ishida checkweigher and a CEIA metal detector achieves accurate high-speed package inspection of all ferrous and non-ferrous metal contaminants including stainless steel, as well as verification of current product weight or count.
This space-saving solution is completely customisable depending on your requirement and can handle a range of packaged, boxed or bagged products at real-time line speeds.
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Co. Sligo, Ireland
Cambridgeshire, UK
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